Cannabinoid Containing Cannabis Extract Infused into Rolling Paper

Abstract

A rolling paper is formed according to a modified conventional paper-making process. The end product is infused with cannabinoids from an oil extract from the cannabis plant. Since paper-making is highly water intensive and the cannabinoid containing cannabis extract is an oil that is ordinarily immiscible in the water, an emulsifier is used to allow the cannabinoids to evenly disperse in the making of the paper. The addition of the cannabinoids and the emulsifier is done prior to the drying of the paper. Preferably, the emulsifier and cannabinoids are added during the sizing step of the paper-making. Preferably the emulsifier is a starch-like carbohydrate, a modified starch, more preferably hydroxy-propyl-methyl-cellulose. The cannabinoid containing cannabis extract can be added at the pulping, web-forming step and / or preferably at the sizing step of paper-making.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the manufacture and end product of rolling paper used for creating a cigarette, whether surrounding tobacco leaves, grounds, seeds of tobacco or that of the flowering plant known as cannabis. More specifically, the present invention relates to manufacturing rolling paper infused with the active ingredient of cannabis, cannabinoids, some of which are known to have psychoactive properties. Often delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol of cannabis is drawn or pressed from the cannabis plant and it is often generically referred to as a cannabinoid. It seems desirable to provide rolling paper for forming into a cigarette shape with a precise, controlled, uniform and dispersed quantity of the cannabinoid containing concentrate. Thus, the present invention relates to a method and the end product for incorporating cannabinoids as an infused component for paper, primarily intended for use as rolling paper for creating new cigarettes of c...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a method for infusing cannabinoids into paper during the paper-making process. This is accomplished by using an emulsifier, such as carbohydrates or starches, to mix the cannabinoids with the water component of the process. This results in a uniform dispersion of the cannabinoids throughout the paper, as compared to previous methods where the cannabinoids were added after the paper-making process. The cannabinoids can be applied in a controlled concentration and can be applied to both the paper and the sizing agent during the process. This results in a more effective and uniform infusion of cannabinoids into the paper.

Problems solved by technology

Yet, as of now, there is no large scale manufacturer of cigarettes made from either tobacco or cannabis leaves whereby the paper used to surround the crushed tobacco or cannabis and leaf particles are provided with cannabinoids, the active ingredient of cannabis.

This results in an oily composition of cannabinoids, separated from the remaining physical components of the cannabis plants, stems and seeds.

That however should easily be understood to provide a lack of concentration consistency, lack of content uniformity, and an inconsistent concentration of the cannabinoids onto one or more cigarettes.

Cannabis extracts do not readily mix with water and therefore are not uniformly dispersed throughout the water matrix when added to water in a container or as an additive to a water using process but, rather, the oil will tend to stay with other oil molecules, separate from the water molecules.

However, to the Applicant's knowledge, it has not been thought of to use an emulsifier in the water-intensive process of paper-making for manufacture of rolling paper such that cannabinoids, the active ingredient of cannabis, can be fully integrated, uniformly, evenly and with known and controlled concentration into the paper for making cigarette or joint rolling papers.

This does not teach nor suggest the problem with the difficulty of miscibility of the cannabinoid-containing oil in a water-based process of making paper nor does it provide a solution for the problem.

There is, however, no teaching nor suggestion of the use of an emulsifying agent during the paper-making process to allow for uniformity of concentration and uniformity of mixing between the cannabinoid containing oil, and the water used in the paper-making process.

However, there seems to be an absence of a teaching or a suggestion therein of using an emulsifying agent to allow for content uniformity and mixing thoroughly of the cannabinoid containing oils, into and with the water of one or more of the steps in the paper-making process.

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